GROWING FURY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1939, Page 9

GROWING FURY

ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN

RESPONSIBILITY FOR DAMAGE

MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS

(By Telegraph—Press dissociation— Copyright.)

(Received July 13,11.15 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 12. ' Naval activity and the redisposition of warships is Britain's initial reply to the growing fury of antiBritish demonstrations.

The British Consulate at Tsingtao, around wiiich a naval guard has been stationed, has asked the Japanese for protection and issued a warning that Japan would be responsible for any damage done. Japanese police in plain clothes led a Chinese mob, which threw stones and fireworks through the windows of the British Consulateand also the windows of two British banks and five British firms. ThY Japanese soldiers and Chinese police did not attempt to keep order. The buildings were plastered with posters urging the Chinese to oust th*e British.

H.M.S. Diamond is going to Tsingtao instead of H.M.S. Lowestoft, which has been. diverted to an unknown destination. H.M.S. Sandwich is hastening to Tientsin and H.M.S. Falmouth is proceeding to Weihaiwei.

JAPANESE DISAVOWAL.

A Foreign Office spokesman in Tokio dissociated the Japanese Government from the anti-British campaign throughout Japan, the latest manifestation of which is the appearance of anti-British posters in the streets of Tokio. He described as insulting a Question as to whether it could be assumed that the Japanese were fomenting the anti-British campaign in China.

Tha Tokio correspondent of "Tha Times" states that there is real danger that the Government may be creating a Frankenstein monster capable of - wrecking a reasonable settlement at the Tientsin conference by significant- * ly refraining from officially disapproving the spread of anti-British agitation. Every telegraph pole in Tokio is plastered with hostile slogans and - retired generals are haranguing mass meetings of vociferous patriots. A more sinister development is the spate \ of anti-British meetings organised by the municipal and prefectural village councils, similar to- the agitations in China. The Japanese public is apparently naive enough to believe that the Chinese in the occupied areas are flocking without constraint to antiBritish demonstrations. More extensive demonstrations - are planned for (the weekend.

It is announced that the first meeting of the AngloiJapanese conference regarding Tientsin will take place on July 15.